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Shhh dont tell them, the yanks still think London swings like a pendulum do, Bobbies on bicycles, two by two. If you shut up, we can flog 'em another "London bridge"..
Oh, and for information: London = place with lots of people, 11 million of them, baaad place to have chernobyl-style accident. Sellafield (or Windscale - renamed to make it more friendly) = place with not too many people in, ok to have accident..
Thanks to Sellafield, the Irish sea is the most radioactive in the world. Yeah, thanks Sellafield.
If we can get power consumption figures for these chips lower by, ooh say 1 watt or so, we can use beowulf clusters of these generate power & to solve our power problems - no more greenhouse gases!
With respect, at the moment this is a lot of hypothesis built on a very small base of data. I am prepared to speculate that there are many ways in which these very very very tiny proportions of methane (and they are small) could have ended up in the atmosphere - given our limited knowledge of mars (only 4 successful landers with limited capabilities) there may be many subtle mechanisms by which stored methane could leak, at least in these sort of quantities..
Having said that, I believe it is even probable that live did exist on mars, and very possible it is still there. Thanks to the MERs, we know that mars was wet for some length of time in history, probably for millenia. From evidence of martian meteorites on earth, we can assume a high probablility of cross-fertilisation of DNA between earth-mars during that time. Given that, and given how tenacious we know DNA is once created, it is probable that it still thrives in some sub-terranian (sorry sub-martian) pocket..
Once thing is sure - we should be investing more to find out..
Most ordinary people like the idea of buying something "real" - they will even collect the CDs/LPs of a band (sometimes buying the same recording again) just to have a complete collection. The most famous cover artwork is also a factor, an item people like to own, and have on their bookshelves. The old 33 LPs were superior in that regard- have a look at the prices people are paying for certain old vinyl LPs on ebay..
MP3/downloads-type purchases will saturate out at a certain level - the general public will always go for the "real thing", which will probably still be CDs for the forseeable future..
Could be the pluto "New HOrizons" mission - Los Alamos was supposed to be making Plutonium 238 for the RTGs. The delay could mean they are not ready for the Jan 2006 launch window..
Instead of rushing to the Moon, if we'd focused first on establishing a permanent orbital presense along with a small suite of multipurpose reusable spacecraft (large cargo units like the Shuttle, along with small crewboats for crew transfers), and *then* gone to the moon, we'd be a lot further along now than we are.
That was what they tried to do, sort of. The problem was and is expense - Ulitimately X-Prize-style enterprises are the way to get cheap access to orbit (& later moon), not massive boondongles like the Shuttle & ISS.
Sure, Apollo was expensive, but at least it delivered a definate objective - and excellent science to boot..
Zubrin is also good on this - by focusing on a goal like the moon NASA did far more in the 60's than it did after, with much the same budget..
in fact they suggested even building 2. If Hubble keeps going a while longer, (it could go 2010 with luck) we would then have 2 scopes going!
Dont get me wrong, its been fantastic, but it is in essence 70's tech with upgrades bolted on. I think some of the bits are still original - they have been going a long long time, so when they blow thats it. There are a lot of things that can be done better too..
Tech has moved on - time to stop putting money into Hubble, great tho the old horse has been..
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Hmm, how much delta-v/rocket fuel to slow up a large asteroid from 17 km/sec to orbital speed.. Quite a lot of fuel/engine is gonna be needed..
The only "cheap" (in terms of fuel) way of loosing all that velocity I can think of is diverting it so that it skims the Earths atmosphere for aerobraking/capture.. Fancy trying it?
If I recall, the mirror is many times heavier than a modern unfolding/segmented mirror is - for the same launch weight we could have a bigger mirror, or a lighter scope with the same mirror. Plenty of the hardware has not been swapped - the processor/hard disk etc is also pretty old.
From the article.. When NASA, on July 29, finally announced a list of the nine mission concepts to be funded for further study, most of them also had strong relevance to cosmology as well as to the development of stars within this galaxy and the search for their possible planets.
And one of those concepts was the Hubble Origins Probe ("HOP") proposed by Colin Norman of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates Hubble.
HOP would fly the WFC-3 and COS instruments- intended for installation on Hubble- on a new orbiting space telescope, in a similar low Earth orbit, with a 2.4 meter mirror just as big as Hubble's.
But (like the other Origins Probe ideas) it would cost less than $670 million, thanks to the major cost-saving advances in technology that have occurred since Hubble itself was built in the 1980s.
(For instance, the European Space Agency's "Herschel" infrared space telescope, set for launch in 2007, costs only about a billion dollars and weighs less than one-third as much as Hubble - but it carries three instruments, and its mirror is almost half again as wide as Hubble's and has over twice as much light-collecting area.)
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Funniest. Post. Ever...
It doesnt even mention Strongbad's Lappy 512..
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Yes, just click on the Nigerian PayPal link below, and I will send you that miracle homeopathic atom!
Can it run WINE?
No, but you can run it while drinking wine..
But maybe if it did run WINE, you could run WinKnoppix under that..
Or to give it its acronym, the long-awaited "Write Many, Read Never" drive is here..
You know, kinda like those 5 cent DVD-Rs you get down the market..
Shhh dont tell them, the yanks still think London swings like a pendulum do, Bobbies on bicycles, two by two. If you shut up, we can flog 'em another "London bridge"..
Oh, and for information: London = place with lots of people, 11 million of them, baaad place to have chernobyl-style accident. Sellafield (or Windscale - renamed to make it more friendly) = place with not too many people in, ok to have accident..
Thanks to Sellafield, the Irish sea is the most radioactive in the world. Yeah, thanks Sellafield.
Just to put you in the picture..
one?
Hi darling, ooh is that a gigantic Mersenne Prime, or are you just pleased to see me?
If we can get power consumption figures for these chips lower by, ooh say 1 watt or so, we can use beowulf clusters of these generate power & to solve our power problems - no more greenhouse gases!
With respect, at the moment this is a lot of hypothesis built on a very small base of data. I am prepared to speculate that there are many ways in which these very very very tiny proportions of methane (and they are small) could have ended up in the atmosphere - given our limited knowledge of mars (only 4 successful landers with limited capabilities) there may be many subtle mechanisms by which stored methane could leak, at least in these sort of quantities..
Having said that, I believe it is even probable that live did exist on mars, and very possible it is still there. Thanks to the MERs, we know that mars was wet for some length of time in history, probably for millenia. From evidence of martian meteorites on earth, we can assume a high probablility of cross-fertilisation of DNA between earth-mars during that time. Given that, and given how tenacious we know DNA is once created, it is probable that it still thrives in some sub-terranian (sorry sub-martian) pocket..
Once thing is sure - we should be investing more to find out..
PVs are expensive if you are going to try to cover big areas, which is why australia are building a Solar Tower in the desert:
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http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/eddesk.ns
And for information, the total solar power falling on just a section of Australia's desert could power the whole worlds electric needs..
Most ordinary people like the idea of buying something "real" - they will even collect the CDs/LPs of a band (sometimes buying the same recording again) just to have a complete collection. The most famous cover artwork is also a factor, an item people like to own, and have on their bookshelves. The old 33 LPs were superior in that regard- have a look at the prices people are paying for certain old vinyl LPs on ebay..
MP3/downloads-type purchases will saturate out at a certain level - the general public will always go for the "real thing", which will probably still be CDs for the forseeable future..
Could be the pluto "New HOrizons" mission - Los Alamos was supposed to be making Plutonium 238 for the RTGs. The delay could mean they are not ready for the Jan 2006 launch window..
but not as much as a spoon..
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
Proof conclusive.
Instead of rushing to the Moon, if we'd focused first on establishing a permanent orbital presense along with a small suite of multipurpose reusable spacecraft (large cargo units like the Shuttle, along with small crewboats for crew transfers), and *then* gone to the moon, we'd be a lot further along now than we are.
That was what they tried to do, sort of. The problem was and is expense - Ulitimately X-Prize-style enterprises are the way to get cheap access to orbit (& later moon), not massive boondongles like the Shuttle & ISS.
Sure, Apollo was expensive, but at least it delivered a definate objective - and excellent science to boot..
Zubrin is also good on this - by focusing on a goal like the moon NASA did far more in the 60's than it did after, with much the same budget..
You have only to look at the story on letting Hubble go to see some effect.
Letting Hubble go was the right choice, Moon or no Moon directive. Hubbles been good, but $2 billion is too much..
Also time to say goodbye to the Shuttle, too.
It is time to say goodbye. been saying this for a while now. THere was a good article on spacedaily a while back too:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/hubble-04p.html
in fact they suggested even building 2. If Hubble keeps going a while longer, (it could go 2010 with luck) we would then have 2 scopes going!
Dont get me wrong, its been fantastic, but it is in essence 70's tech with upgrades bolted on. I think some of the bits are still original - they have been going a long long time, so when they blow thats it. There are a lot of things that can be done better too..
Tech has moved on - time to stop putting money into Hubble, great tho the old horse has been..
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I was getting sick of that old redundant legacy blu-ray format, its about time we replaced it..
Who on earth needs a terabyte of storage? "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1981. Oh, and how about "Holographic pr0n"?
This is BBC news, its Friday, April 13, 2029, we join Patrick Moore at Greenwich to report on the flyby of asteroid MN4 2004..
Its clearly visible now, around Magnitude 3..
Now brighter..
magnitude 2.. 1..
My Word! What a treat for all you Astronomy buffs out there!
Magnitude 0.. -1.. -2..
It is the Brightest object in the sky now, clearly moving against the background of stars..
Magnitude -3.. -4..
But should it be this bright? And is it starting to get warm? Whats..
(Transmission cuts)
Hmm, how much delta-v/rocket fuel to slow up a large asteroid from 17 km/sec to orbital speed.. Quite a lot of fuel/engine is gonna be needed..
The only "cheap" (in terms of fuel) way of loosing all that velocity I can think of is diverting it so that it skims the Earths atmosphere for aerobraking/capture.. Fancy trying it?
They can, if they have their own OS.. I claim trademark on that name, tho.. :-)
Check this article:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/hubble-04p.html
If I recall, the mirror is many times heavier than a modern unfolding/segmented mirror is - for the same launch weight we could have a bigger mirror, or a lighter scope with the same mirror. Plenty of the hardware has not been swapped - the processor/hard disk etc is also pretty old.
From the article..
When NASA, on July 29, finally announced a list of the nine mission concepts to be funded for further study, most of them also had strong relevance to cosmology as well as to the development of stars within this galaxy and the search for their possible planets.
And one of those concepts was the Hubble Origins Probe ("HOP") proposed by Colin Norman of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates Hubble.
HOP would fly the WFC-3 and COS instruments- intended for installation on Hubble- on a new orbiting space telescope, in a similar low Earth orbit, with a 2.4 meter mirror just as big as Hubble's.
But (like the other Origins Probe ideas) it would cost less than $670 million, thanks to the major cost-saving advances in technology that have occurred since Hubble itself was built in the 1980s.
(For instance, the European Space Agency's "Herschel" infrared space telescope, set for launch in 2007, costs only about a billion dollars and weighs less than one-third as much as Hubble - but it carries three instruments, and its mirror is almost half again as wide as Hubble's and has over twice as much light-collecting area.)
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